Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

• Author : Anne Tyler
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 30 April 2012

* One of the Daily Telegraph's 100 GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME * Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now, as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with it its secrets. **ANNE

• Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
• Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
• Release : 29 June 2016

A Study Guide for Anne Tyler's "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

• Author : Robert W. Croft,Robert William Croft
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release : 08 February 1995

This first biography of novelist Anne Tyler includes a discussion of her early childhood, high school and college years, adulthood, marriage, and motherhood. It incorporates source materials from the Anne Tyler Papers at Duke University and letters from Tyler to the author. The volume lists all of Tyler's novels, short stories, articles, and book reviews and provides an annotated bibliography of books, articles, dissertations, and theses on her fiction.

• Author : Anne Tyler
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 01 May 2012

No other writer captures like Anne Tyler, with acerbic affection and compassionate clarity, the shifts and defences of the average family struggling to keep life under control. This first omnibus edition of three full-length novels, all set in the respectable Baltimore streets she has made so particularly her own, encompasses the range of eccentricities and compromises to which they are driven. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant follows the disintegration and eventual reaffirmation of the Tull family – fierce, embittered Pearl, left

• Author : JoAnna Stephens Mink,Janet Doubler Ward
• Publisher : Popular Press
• Release : 08 February 1993

Examines the significance of sibling relationships, or the lack of them, as portrayed in literature. Many of the 13 essays compare two or more novels, most of which are from the Victorian era or the 20th century. Paper edition (613-X), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

• Author : Susan S. Kissel
• Publisher : Popular Press
• Release : 08 February 1996

A background synthesis freshly discussing the work of Chopin, McCullers, O'Connor, Mitchell, and Welty leads to extended treatment of the novels of Shirley Ann Grau, whose protagonists, "keepers of the house," remain their fathers' daughters; of Anne Tyler, whose characters are "fatherless" and "homeless at home"; and Gail Godwin, whose daughter-heroines learn the necessity of autonomy.

• Author : Elaine Showalter,Lea Baechler,A. Walton Litz
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 27 September 1993

Offers essays on forty-one women authors

• Author : Anne Tyler
• Publisher : Berkley Publishing Group
• Release : 01 October 1990

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant))The Accidental Tourist))Breathing Lessons))3 Vols.

• Author : Paul Bail
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release : 08 February 1998

An insightful study of the novels of Anne Tyler, ideal for students and readers of the novelist.

• Author : Bella Vivante
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release : 08 February 2023

Covers more than sixty women who published significant fiction after 1945, with a brief biography, exposition of major works and themes, survey of critical reception, and references to primary and secondary sources for each.

• Author : Jane Smiley
• Publisher : Faber & Faber
• Release : 14 August 2014

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author's revelatory celebration of the novel - at once an anatomy of the art of fiction, a guide for readers and writers and a memoir of literary life. Over her 20 year career, Jane Smiley has written many kinds of novels - mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. But when her impulse to write faltered after 9/11, she decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read 100 of them, from the 1000-year-old Tale of Genji to the recent bestseller

• Author : Jane Smiley
• Publisher : Anchor
• Release : 10 December 2008

An essential guide for writers and readers alike, here is Smiley’s great celebration of the novel. As she embarks on an exhilarating tour through one hundred titles—from classics such as the thousand-year-old Tale of Genji to recent fiction by Zadie Smith and Alice Munro—she explores the power of the form, looking at its history and variety, its cultural impact, and just how it works its magic. She invites us behind the scenes of novel-writing, sharing her own

• Author : Debra Shostak
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release : 20 February 2020

Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel explores the unstable construction of heteronormative white masculinity in the contemporary United States by focusing on relationships between fathers and their children. Debra Shostak reads the novels of 18 North American writers publishing in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as allegories of cultural conflict and change within the nuclear family; the authors considered include Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, Jonathan Lethem, Carole Maso, Bobbie

• Author : Rolf Lundén
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 08 June 2022

This book discusses the American short story composite, or short story cycle, a neglected form of writing consisting of autonomous stories interlocking into a whole. The critical work done on this genre has so far focused on the closural strategies of the composites, on how unity is accomplished in these texts. This study takes into consideration, to a greater degree than earlier criticism, the short story composite as an open work, emphasizing the tension between the independent stories and the

• Author : Nancy M. Tischler
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 08 February 2023

Provides biographies of American and British authors of Christian themed works from World War II until the present day.